{{short description|German conductor}} {{more sources needed|date=November 2025}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Peter Raabe | image = Peter Raabe (1872-1945).jpg | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_date = 27 November 1872 | birth_place = Frankfurt (Oder), German Empire | death_date = {{d-da|12 April 1945|27 November 1872}} | death_place = Weimar, Germany | genre = Classical }}
'''Peter Raabe''' (27 November 1872 – 12 April 1945) was a German composer and conductor.
==Biography==
Raabe graduated from three schools: the Higher Musical School in Berlin, the universities of Munich, and Jena University. In 1894–98 Raabe worked in Königsberg and Zwickau. In 1899–1903 he worked in the Dutch Opera-House (Amsterdam). In 1907–1920, Raabe was the 1st Court Conductor in Weimar. Raabe performed in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the Netherlands, among other locations. On 19 July 1935 Raabe superseded Richard Strauss as the president of ''Reichsmusikkammer'', the Nazi State Music Institute. For almost ten years, Raabe directed the music activity of the Third Reich. [[Image:Reichsmusikkammer1001.jpg|right|thumb|Reichsmusikkammer decree issued on 9 August 1935 by Dr. Peter Raabe, notifying the Berlin musician Dr. Werner Liebenthal of the immediate cessation of his professional activity.]]
Raabe wrote the first complete chronology of the works of Franz Liszt.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Alan |title=Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847 |date=1987 |publisher=Cornell University Press |page=18 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Franz_Liszt_The_virtuoso_years_1811_1847/lCw4cxHmpgYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Raabe+wrote+the+first+complete+chronology+of+the+works+of+Franz+Liszt.&pg=PA18&printsec=frontcover |access-date=7 November 2025}}</ref>
== General references == * ''Who Was Who in the Third Reich. Biographic encyclopedical dictionary,'' Moscow, 2003 {{in lang|ru}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{PM20|FID=pe/023950}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Raabe, Peter}} Category:1872 births Category:1945 deaths Category:German conductors (music) Category:German male conductors (music) Category:Officials of Nazi Germany Category:People from Frankfurt (Oder) Category:Musicians from the Province of Brandenburg